Senior Project Manager Product Focused

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Job Overview
The Project Manager will be working with a strong and dedicated team. The role requires someone who can work closely with client stakeholders to extract and define business requirements, someone who can deliver successful project outcomes using a sprint/kanban methodology and someone who can collaborate with designers and engineers to deliver best-in-class digital experiences that people will love to use.
About You
Excellent stakeholder management and relationship-management skills ideally in a client services environment.
Experience working with a digital platform process (end-to-end) and supporting target setting/OKRs with the client.
Ability to follow team processes and methodologies, using Agile techniques and Jira as a tool for team scheduling, task management.
Strong analysis, problem-solving, judgement and decision making skills to drive the project/product.
Analytical thinker.
Technical Awareness.
Understanding of Agile: Scrum, Scrum-ban or Kanban including ceremonies.
Competency within the web/digital industry, processes & techniques.
Comfortable with a hands-on management and collaborative approach.
Highly organised and able to handle simultaneous solutions and client communications across multiple projects/products.
Ability to collaborate with and manage a cross-functional team (comprising of Design, BA, Development, QA, Content resources) to deliver the best outcomes and user experiences
Competency in project planning, estimation and task management, resource mapping (capacity planning and utilisation).
Ability to bring team ideas to the client and present opportunities.
About the Role
Delivering an innovative program of virtual experiences in conjunction with the client's vision.
Managing a dedicated team of designers and developers alongside non-dedicated resources to complete projects.
Managing an established client relationship and understanding the key business objectives and incorporating into agreed project goals.
Harmonize and facilitate product/project requirements such as feature release planning, daily meetings, demos and story maps.
Driving design-led Discovery phases for project scope.
Liaising between the clients business and technical team stakeholders to assure clear product/project delivery
Managing monthly billing and taking part in studio planning as well as managing non-dedicated resources
Identifying risks and planning solutions for future obstacles in a timely manner
Engaging in a multi-vendor environment across client and third-party agencies and promoting process and core design/technical governance strategies.
Experience
5 years experience with qualification/certification in a relevant project or product discipline
3rd level PO or Scrum qualification (3 years experience)
Taken part or led digital project delivery end-to-end process
Agile Methodologies such as Kanban, Scrum - but also competency in handling a hybrid waterfall/agile approach where needed.
Experience with Jira and possible experience with key collaboration tools such as Miro, Slack (Figma a bonus).
Experience in leading out collaborative workshops from both a design or technical focus.
Nice to have
Experience/familiarity with UX, Design systems (Such as Figma)
Possible experience with Kentico CMS (or familiarity with a CMS platform).

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